Cattle, or of the speckled Cow. The name of this well is incorrectly written " Toberacanny " on the Ordnance Map.

The old hill-road separating Kilmogar from Feetheelagh, and leading to Freneystown, is called Leaccanacaurha, i.e. teac-An '"c C^ptAiC, or MacCarthy's Hill.

TlSCOFFIN.

In Irish this ancient parish is called Ttsc"heen, that is, Cig Scuitfn, the Church (literally House) of St. Scuithin or Scuheen. St. Scuithin is commemorated in Irish Martyrologies on the 2nd Jan. He is entered on this day, in the Feilire of jEngus, as " Scuithine, diadem of [Slieve] Mairge (Scuithine mind Mairge).

On this passage iEngus's scholiast thus comments :

' Scuithine i.e. from Tech Scothine in Sliab Mairge. It is worth knowing whence he is called Scothine. Not hard (to say). Because of the speed of the journey which he made, viz. to go to Rome in one day and to come from it in another day. Vel ideo Scothene dictus est, i.e. Once upon a time he met Barra [St. Finbar] of Cork, and he walking on the sea, and Barra in a vessel. What is the cause of thy walking on the sea? ' says Barra. ' It is not sea at all, but a plain, flowery, shamrocked,' quoth Scuthin, and he lifts in his hand a purple flower and casts it from him to Barra in the ship. And Scothin said ' What is the cause of a vessel swimming on the plain? ' At that word Barra stretches his hand down into the sea, and takes a salmon thereout, and casts it to Scothin. So that from that flower [scoth] he is named Scothin

Scothin, son of Setnae. son of Trebthach, son of Dal, son of Laidir (Cu-corb's charioteer), son of Imrossa Nith, son of Fertlachtga, son of Fergus mac Roig."

He is also entered at the 2nd January, in the Martyrology of Donegal, thus :

" Sguithin of Tech-Sguithin, in Sliabh Mairge, in Leinster. He is of the race of Feartlachta, son of Fearghus, son of Ros, son of Rudhraighe."

Passing over from Ireland, his native country, to Wales, St. Scuithin was trained to the religious life at Menevia, where he had the great St. David for master. About the year 540 he returned to Ireland, and built for himself a cell in one of the recesses of the Slieve Mairge hills. The cell came afterwards to be known as Tigh-Scuithin, a name which still survives, after more than thirteen centuries, under the strangely anglicised form Tiscoffin. Here many disciples *oon gathered around him, attracted by the fame of his sanctity and penitential austerities. One of his austerities is specially mentioned. Each night he plunged into the strejam that flowed by his cell, and remained immersed in it while he recited the penitential psalms. He often proceeded to Wales to visit his venerable master, St. David, and in the life of this great patron of Wales, many facts are mentioned connected with our saint.

The date of his death is unknown. He rests, according to tradition, in Tiscoffin. His name is still well remembered in this locality.

PARISH OF CLARA.

At the 23rd of June, the Martyrology of Donegal commemorates " Goibhnenn of Tigh Scuithin."

In Tiscoffin churchyard, now always called Freneystown churchyard, from the townland in which it is situated, there are several inscribed monuments, but none of them dating before the 18th century. There is a fragment of a coffin-shaped slab with cross down the centre. Some pieces of the walls of the Catholic church in use here at the time of the Reformation, remained down to about 1820, when they were cleared away to make room for a Protestant church. This latter church having no worshippers, was closed after the passing of the Church Disestablishment Act, and has since been taken down to the ground. St. Scuithin's holy well is on the roadside, underneath the boundary wall of the churchyard.

Almost immediately adjoining this churchyard, is a large circular enclosure surrounded by a rampart of earth and resembling a rath. This, it is said, is the exact site of St. Scuithin's cell; and there can be no doubt it was also the site of the original church of Tiscoffin. Within it are seven flag-stones, under which, local tradition asserts most positively that seven bishops, brothers, and children of one birth, lie buried.

The southern division of Tiscoffin parish, comprising the townlands of Freneystown, Grangehill, Moonhall and Rathcash, was See-lands from very remote times. This, as already laid down1 would go far to show that, in the first centuries of Christianity in this country, Tiscoffin was an episcopal See.

The castle of Freneystown was built by Oliver Cantwell, Bishop of Ossory from 1487 to 1527. It is a square keep, still in excellent preservation, about 40 ft. high, and measuring internally at the top, 22^ ft. by 10 ft.; it consists of three storeys. O'Donovan writes that one of the rooms was dedicated to St. Scuithin, and was, from this circumstance, known as An c-reomp a Scuitin, or St. Scuithin's Room.2 The local Irish sound of Freneystown is Bollia-na-Vshaenack, i.e., tMileoa "Fft6inneA6, the Town of the Freneys.

There was a castle in Moonhall, but it has been cleared away for a very long time. Its last occupant was a man named Kelly. In this same townland there is a holy well called Tubbernanaspug, or the Well of the Bishops.

The site of another castle is pointed out near the roadside, in Castlewarren. This townland was forfeited by Henry Archer in Cromwell's time. In Irish it is called Cushlawn-aWawzheena (Caif le-an "' tt,di|tfni"), or Warren's Castle.

Templemartin.

The parish of Templemartin, or as it is called on the Ordnance Map, St.

* Sec Vol. I., p. 16.

%Ord. Survey letter.

APA: Carrigan, William William. (2013). pp. 360-1. The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory (Vol. 3). London: Forgotten Books. (Original work published 1905)MLA: Carrigan, William William. The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory. Vol. 3. 1905. Reprint. London: Forgotten Books, 2013. 360-1. Print.